The move to outsourced IT projects: Key risks from the provider perspective

SIGMIS CPR'05 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 149-154

  Taylor, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

IT project risk management; Outsourced projects; Risk factors; Software packages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OUTSOURCING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISKS;

IT PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT; OUTSOURCED PROJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 29144524664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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